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COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – The just-released 2018 Best Lawyers in America includes an impressive showing for Burnette Shutt & McDaniel. The new firm won 13 honors, including two Lawyers of the Year for metro Columbia. Malissa Burnette, Nekki Shutt and Janet Rhodes of Burnette Shutt & McDaniel won recognition across eight practice areas. Lawyer of […]

COLUMBIA, SC – The just-released 2017 Legal Elite of the Midlands lists four lawyers from Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, including all three of the firm’s founders. The publication’s employment law category includes M. Malissa Burnette, Nekki Shutt and Janet Rhodes. Kathleen McDaniel is among the Legal Elite in environmental law. “It’s great to see four […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – New attorneys can jump start an employment law career through a program Burnette Shutt & McDaniel’s Nekki Shutt helped create for the SC Bar. South Carolina Employment Law Essentials is a day-long continuing legal education program. Shutt and another Columbia employment lawyer developed the CLE, now it its fourth year. They […]

COLUMBIA, SC – Three experienced and skilled attorneys have come together to create Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, a forward-thinking law firm with offices in Columbia’s historic business district. Burnette Shutt & McDaniel will focus on employment law, environmental law, privacy issues and litigation. Founders M. Malissa Burnette, Nekki Shutt and Kathleen McDaniel practiced together for […]

Columbia, SC: – Two Burnette Shutt & McDaniel partners updated the legal community on a wide variety of issues during the SC Bar’s Modern Family Law II CLE in March. Nekki Shutt, an employment lawyer with Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, created the groundbreaking CLE three years ago with a goal of helping attorneys navigate complex […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA –Nekki Shutt served as a co-moderator and presenter at the recent Employment Law Essentials, a day-long South Carolina Bar continuing legal education seminar for recent law school graduates. Shutt and another Columbia attorney, who, like Shutt is a certified employment law specialist, developed Employment Law Essentials. She continues to serve as co-organizer […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – Burnette Shutt & McDaniel partners Nekki Shutt and M. Malissa Burnette were honored at the South Carolina Gay and Lesbian Business Guild Gala. Shutt and Burnette are among five honorees. The Guild is recognizing them for their roles in leading the legal team that won same-sex couples the right to get […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – Nekki Shutt, a veteran South Carolina employment lawyer, will present a program this month at a federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regional training program. The day-long program is part of the EEOC’s outreach efforts designed to help employers train their managers on avoiding legal issues such as discrimination in the workplace. […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – Nekki Shutt presented a seminar covering employment issues impacting transgender employees. The program was part of this year’s South Carolina Bar State Convention. Shutt began her talk by outlining problems transgender people face in the workplace, including job loss due to bias, verbal abuse and harassment, threats and social ostracization. Among […]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – Nekki Shutt, was a participant in a spring symposium organized by the Federal Courts Law Review at the Charleston School of Law. The symposium is an annual event that draws both students and practicing attorneys. This year’s program included a keynote address followed by four, one-hour panels. Shutt was a panelist […]